This February, if you’ve been enjoying the beauty of a fire in your home and you haven’t given a thought to maintenance, it’s time to show your fireplace a little love. Fireplaces require annual maintenance to continue burning reliably, safely, and efficiently. If you’re not getting what you need from your hearth appliance, you can bring romance and heat to your home with a beautiful new fireplace, stove, or insert.
Your Guide to Gas Hearth Appliances
When you’re shopping for a new gas hearth appliance, it helps to know exactly what you’re looking for. The hearth industry is replete with jargon and learning about the different appliances can be dizzying. However, knowing the basic types of gas hearth appliance is the best place to start when you’re ready to tackle your project.
Update Your Wood Burner and Save with the Biomass Stove Tax Credit
Give your home the gift of a working fireplace this holiday season!
More than 60% of home buyers prefer a home with a fireplace
What Kind of Fireplace Do I Have?
With over 20 years in the hearth industry, we get one question more than any other—“What have I got?” or “Is this a factory-built fireplace or a wood stove insert?” or “Is this a gas log set or a gas fireplace” or “It looks like a wood burning fireplace, is it?” No one in our industry intentionally set out to create a set of descriptions that lack clarity and uniformity, but that’s how it ended up. We’re here to help!
7 Easy Ways to Slash Your Heating Bill This Winter
7 Common Fireplace* Myths
Myths and misconceptions about fireplaces abound. These myths range from the specific (“You can’t burn wood in Denver”) to the broad (“Gas fireplaces won’t work when the power goes out”). Read this article to find out why these myths are wrong and to put a few more fireplace, stove, and insert myths and misconceptions to bed along the way.
Chimney Sweeping and Fireplaces: An Abbreviated History
Like any technology, the fireplace has evolved over time and, in turn, so has fireplace maintenance and cleaning. For example, the certifications the staff at Mountain Hearth & Patio holds from the CSIA and NFI were developed to promote standardization and professionalism in our industry and EPA-Certified appliances have been around since 1990 and were created to limit emissions from wood-burning appliances
Save Money on Your Energy Costs
Do you want to bring warmth, safety, and beauty to your family all while saving money? You can have it all with a new hearth appliance! Whether you burn natural gas, propane, pellets or cord wood, today’s appliances are more efficient and are designed to put out more heat than previous generations. Regardless of fuel, most appliances boast up to 80% efficiency, which means a cleaner burn, more heat in your home, and savings on your heating bills all winter long.
Is Your Chimney Leaking?
Most people don’t know that there are many parts to a chimney system that can allow water in. These weak points are different depending on if it’s a masonry chimney or factory-built chimney. Most parts of the chimney degrade with time, UV rays from sunlight, hail damage, and the freezing and thawing of typical Colorado weather. There are usually several suspected weak points when there are signs of water intrusion; but it can be challenging identifying exactly where the water is coming in from. Often, where the signs of water damage appear is not indicative of the leak’s actual location.
What's In Your Chimney?
Chimneys are notoriously a dark and hidden part of a home. Most homeowners have never seen inside their chimney. Do you know if you have water leaking or if animals have moved in? Do you have a fireplace, stove or insert that doesn’t work and you don’t know why? How long has it been since you’ve had your chimney professionally inspected and serviced? Protect your family and the investment in your home.
Improve Your Life With A Fireplace Insert
Do you have an open face, drafty outdated fireplace? A fireplace insert could be exactly what you need! Inserts are hearth appliances designed to fit into the opening of your fireplace. A new fireplace insert will improve your life! It will look better, heat better and increase the value of your home.
Flicker, Crackle & Pop in Your Fireplace
There are a few things that we associate with the lifestyle and beauty of Colorado—fresh powder, golden aspen leaves, monsoon season, and cozying up around a crackling fire. What is better than a warm fire on a cold night? A real wood fire is sensational: the flickering of the light, the smell of the logs, the crackling and popping sounds. For this reason, many homes in our communities were built with wood burning fireplaces as an amenity.
